Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-08-01
NEIGIIRnRs AEE KINGS.

! on yourselves klnglY anu qutenlV. II
they want to know more particularly
about the first Paradise, they have only to
20 over and ask Adam. II they want to
know how the sun and the moon halted,
they have only to go over and ask
Joshua. II they want to know how the
storm pelted SodOm, they have only to 90
over and ask Lot II they want to know
more about the arrogance Of Haman, they
have only to 20 over and ask M0rdccli
II they want to know how the Red
Sea boiled when it was clOyen, they have
only to 90 over and ask Moses. II they
want Ia know the particulars about the
Bethlehem advent, they have only Ia 20
over and ak the serenading angels
who stood that Christmas
night I'm the balconies Oi
crystal Ii they want to know more Of
the particulars Of the ICruCItiNti0n. they
have only Ia 20 over and ask those who
were personal spectators while The noun
tains crOuchcd and the Heavens got black
in the face at the spectacle. II they want
to know more about the sufleringS Of the
Scotch Covcnantcrs, they have only 10 =
over and ask Andrew Melville. II they
want to know more about the old time re-
vivalS, they have only 10 20 over and ask
Whiteleid, and Wesley, aud Livingston,
and Fletcher, and Ncitleton, and FInney.
o. what place TO SIT in.
II eternity were one minute shorter it
would not he long enough Tor such social
itv. Think of our friends who IN this
world were pIS-ionatcIy tond OF iiowerS
turned into Paradise, Think Of our
friends who were very fond OF raising
snprrh fruit turned into the orchard where
each tree has twelve kinds of fruit at once,
md bearing the fruit all the year round,
Whit are our departed Christian friends
doing III Heaven, those who on earth
found their chief Joy in the Gospel minis
try. They are visiting their old congreGt-
tions
Most of the ministers have got their peo-
pie around them already. When | get to
lIeayen-as by the grace ot God am des-
tined to 90 tn that place will come aud
SEE you all Yea, ! will come to all the
PEOPLE 10 WHOM HAVE ADMINISTERED
in the gospel, aud to the millions OF souls
10 whom through the kindness of the
printing press, | am permitted t0 preach
every week IN this land and IN other Lands -
letters coming from New Zealand aud Aus
traIia and uttermo~t parts OF the earth, a>
wei Is from near nations, telling me "l
the souls | have helped / will visit them
all giye them fair notice. oar depart
rd friends Of the ministry engaged IN that
dclectablr entertainment n0w.
But what are our departed Christian
friends who in all departments 0l useful
ness were busy, finding their chief Joy IN
doing good are they dong now
Going right oh with the work. John
Howard visiting dungeons; the dead
women of northern and southern battle
fields still abroad locking for the wounded,
George Peabody still watching the poor;
Thomas Clarkson stll I0nkiug alter the
rnslaycd-al, 0f ihuse who did good on
earth buster since death than before.
The tombstone not the terminus hut the
starting-post What are our departed
Christian friends who found their chiei
joy in studying God, doing now Study
iug God yet. No need Of revelation nov,
for unblanchrd they are fac" to face Now
they can handle the omnipotent thunder
bolts lust as a child handles thr sword oI
father come back from victorious battle.
They have no sin. nor feaI consequently.
Sudving Christ, not through a revelation,
save the revelation Of the Sgars, that deep
lettering which hrings it AL up quick
enough. Studying the Christ OF the Beth
Ichen clrayanslry, the Christ OF the awful
massacre with its hemOrrhaGe OF head and
hand and foot and side-the Christ of the
mausoleum-Christ the sacrifice,
the star. the sun, the man, the God, the
Goldman, the manGOd.
But hark the hell of the cathedral rings
The cathedral bell OF Heaven.